Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part V) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 911 926 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Viola montana Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 935. 1753 . "Habitat in Alpibus Lapponiae, Austriae, Baldo." RCN: 6774. Lectotype (Nikitin in Bot. Zhurn. 73: 1536. 1988): Herb. Linn. No. 1052.13 ( LINN ) . Current name: Viola montana L. ( Violaceae ). Note: See Wilmott (in J . Bot. 54: 257-262. 1916) for a discussion of the status of this name. However, no explicit choice of type was made. Treated as a nomen ambiguum by some authors, it has also been applied by others to a taxon in the V. canina L. group. However, Nikitin's formal typification has made V. montana the earliest name for the taxon widely known as V. elatior Fr.